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Plot Summary:
A popular high school band is scouted by a Tokyo-based record company. The band is involved in a car accident, however, shattering many hopes. The band receives a demo tape from a girl who lives on the navy base. They are reinvigorated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, sweet, entertaining
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What's New About Love? (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six friends gather every evening in a basement to make music. But during the day, regarding the things of life, there are no tests. Every experience leaves its mark.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Notes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Follows the relationship between a classical music critic and a country music star after a one night stand, which results in an unplanned pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Viena and the Fantomes (2020)
Plot Summary:
A roadie travels across North America with a punk band in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, road movie
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This Movie Is Broken (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, touching, humorous, realistic
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Souvenir (2016)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle Huppert stars as a middle-aged factory worker whose long-ago brush with fame comes to the fore again when she begins a romance with a young aspiring boxer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, stylized
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The Music in Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
A singer/songwriter leaves her dreams behind to help her family, until one special guy and a group of musically-challenged strangers help her find her voice again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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I'll Find You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 40s. Two young lovers, Robert, a Catholic opera singer, and Rachel, a Jewish violin virtuoso, dream of one day performing together at legendary Carnegie Hall. When they're torn apart by the German invasion of Poland, Robert vows to find Rachel, no matter what the war may bring. His search leads him on a life-threatening journey through the heart of Nazi Germany, to a reckoning that Rachel may be lost to him forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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Our Shining Days (2017)
Plot Summary:
A youth inspirational film, about how a group of high school students try to revive Chinese orchestra ensemble. They face many challenges along the way to compete nationally, including a rivalry with the more popular Western orchestra club.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, inspirational
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Songbird (2018)
Plot Summary:
Joanne, lead singer of the once-popular 1990s Britpop band the Filthy Dukes, mistakenly enrolled in university after a drunken night out with her friend Sara. Determined to give the young students a run for their money as a party animal, she finds they aren’t interested in rock ’n’ roll. However, love and new beginnings might be on the cards for rocker Joanne.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Flow Calle (2022)
Plot Summary:
An urban music singer from a poor neighborhood goes through love and pain on her way to success.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Dinner in America (2020)
Plot Summary:
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Just Like Before (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie about the Filipino rock Band The Dawn.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi autobiographical, independent film, entertaining
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Heartsong (2022)
Plot Summary:
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, sincere, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)
Plot Summary:
Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Chile
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Deals with the life, work, and tragic death of Johann "Falco" Hölzel. The biopic portrays his work through his early days, as member of the Viennese band "Drahdiwaberl", and later with his own hits as solo artist, like "Der Kommissar", "Wiener Blut", and his worldwide smash-hit "Rock Me Amadeus".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, intellectual
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Tim Maia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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We Are Little Zombies (2019)
Plot Summary:
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Tonic Dominant (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three days in the life of a young clarinetist (Fernando Alves Pinto), who is in love with a violinist (Vera Zimmerman), but can't get her attention. In the first day he feels alone and frail; in the second day what was supposed to be pleasant becomes a nightmare; in the third day he finally achieves fulfillment through music and helps a pianist (Vera Holtz) who is rehearsing for a concert. These three days correspond to a three movement sonata - the director (Lina Chamie) is a musician, so she imprinted a musical structure to her movie, with few dialogs and poetic images. It's a movie for music lovers. Written by CeciliaWolf.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Comment c'est Loin (2015)
Plot Summary:
After ten years of doing nothing, Orel and Gringe are in their mid 30s and they struggle to finish their first rap album. Their texts are mostly sex jokes and booze stories and reflect the everyday life they have in a small town from France. The problem is that they never really finished a song and when their producers want to meet, they have to face a new challenge : finish their first song in the next 24h. Their old issues, the fear of failure, their alcoholic friends and annoying girlfriends won't help them to do so, or will they ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents (2016)
Plot Summary:
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach.".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bus Palladium (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob et Mario s'aiment depuis l'enfance. Ils ont du talent et de l'espoir. Ils rêvent de musique et de gloire. Leur groupe de rock, Lust, connaît un succès grandissant, mais les aspirations de chacun rendent incertain leur avenir commun. L'arrivée de Laura dans leur vie va bousculer un peu plus ce fragile équilibre.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, eighties
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Bandage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in Japan in the early 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya. LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, romantic, independent film
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Beyond the Lights (2014)
Plot Summary:
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, melancholic, emotional, sentimental, romantic comedy, teen, cute, serious, entertaining
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Scenes from the Goldmine (1987)
Plot Summary:
A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (2001)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen losing his arm in a car accident and guitarist Steve Clark's alcohol addiction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Purple Hearts (2022)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, thought provoking, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Farewell Song (2019)
Plot Summary:
A female duo band "Haruleo" hires a handsome roadie Shima. Contrary to their success, adding a male leads them to the love-triangle. They set out on their final tour after deciding the break-up.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, romantic drama, unusual plot structure
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Once (2007)
Plot Summary:
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film, romantic, heartbreaking, light, melancholic, talky
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He is Beautiful (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ikemen desu ne is a 2011 Japanese television series. It is the Japanese remake of the Korean television drama You're Beautiful. The story revolved around a fictional boy band named A.N.JELL. A young girl who is nun-in-training has to pose as her twin brother and take his place in the band, leading to a complicated relationship between the group’s members.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious